parenthetic

Example Sentences

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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Hark at that child!" cried Mrs Durbeyfield, with parenthetic admiration.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

A dash is used alone or with a comma to inclose a phrase or clause which is parenthetic or explanatory.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

It is characteristic of its author in its reality of feeling, in its seeking an unusual point of view, in its parenthetic and allusive style, and its occasional high felicity of expression.

From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)